Manual

Getting Started With Your System 7
PowerEdge M605
• One or two AMD Opteron 2000 Series dual-core or quad-core processors.
• A minimum of 1 GB of 677-MHz or 800-MHz DDR2 memory modules,
upgradable to a maximum of 64 GB by installing pairs of 512-MB, 1-GB,
2-GB, 4-GB, or 8-GB modules in the eight memory module sockets on
the blade system board. The blade also supports memory sparing.
Common Features
• The PowerEdge M805 and M905 blades support one or two 2.5 inch SAS
hard drives.
• The PowerEdge M600 and M605 blades support one or two 2.5-inch SATA
hard drives,
or one or two 2.5 inch SAS hard drives.
NOTE: SAS and SATA hard drives cannot be mixed within a blade.
Hot-plug drive operation is supported if an optional RAID controller card
is installed in the blade.
• Three USB 2.0-compliant ports (PowerEdge M805 and M905) or two USB
2.0-compliant ports (PowerEdge M605 and M600) support devices such as
a mouse, keyboard, flash drive, diskette drive, or an optical drive.
NOTE: Only Dell-supplied USB devices are supported.
• An integrated VGA-compatible video subsystem with an ATI RN50 video
controller. This video subsystem contains 32 MB of SDRAM video
memory (nonupgradable). Maximum resolution is 1280 x 1024 x 65,000
colors (noninterlaced).
• An Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), which provides
remote system management, blade-level power management, virtual KVM
and virtual media support, remote alerting and event logging.
• Four 1-GB Ethernet ports supported by two integrated dual-port
Broadcom 5709S controllers (PowerEdge M805 and M905), or two 1-GB
Ethernet ports supported by two integrated Broadcom 5708S controllers
(PowerEdge M600 and M605). TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) and iSCSI
boot are supported.
For a complete list of system features, see "Technical Specifications" on
page 15.